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Big Bend Regional Medical Center announced its four-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) placing BBRMC within the top quartile of hospitals nationwide.

CMS released overall hospital quality “star ratings” on its Hospital Compare website to provide consumers with more transparency regarding the quality, safety and service of hospitals throughout the United States. Hospitals received ratings of one to five stars – with five stars being the highest score – based on their performance on selected measures from the hospital inpatient quality reporting (IQR) and outpatient quality reporting (OQR) programs. The ratings were based on performance data dated from 2011 to 2016.

The scoring consisted of seven domains in the areas of mortality, safety, readmissions, patient experience, timeliness of care, and imaging efficiency.